BAZOMBO: a discursive miscellany of topics

Thursday, August 14 2008

We never had a ZX Spectrum at home. After the ZX81, we got an Amstrad CPC 464. But still, those Spectrums were very popular, and I knew people who had them.

Amazingly, there are quite a few still out there serving web pages right now….

(And more seriously, there are a lot of Tomcat servers directly on the Internet. Tasty, vulnerable Tomcat servers.)

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Tags: funny ~ security

When automated tagging goes odd

Wednesday, July 09 2008

Archives New Zealand’s National Collection of War Art is a pretty good site, in glorious XHTML.

I was interested to see that they have a tag cloud, presumably generated out of photograph metadata, and that right up there with Italy, desert, jungle and New Zealand division is… moustache.

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Tags: funny ~ linky ~ metadata ~ tagging

Irony

Tuesday, October 30 2007

I was in Borders today looking for something interesting to use my 40% discount voucher on.

There was a new book in the computer section, on reverse engineering.

It was shink-wrapped.

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Tags: funny

Shelly Powers: the Parable of the Languages

Thursday, October 11 2007

I love the ending.